including children, was decreed. When more than 7500 people had tested positive for COVID-19, 293 were admitted to the ICU and 136 people died1.
Control definition: negative test for COVID-19, Fig.2b): PCR antigen tests are used to confirm a suspected (currently active) COVID-19 infection. Studies that aim to determine the risk factors for confirmed current COVID-19 infection therefore rely on participants having...
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unpredictable and fast-paced changes to society, which have disproportionately impacted communities of children and young people with SEND as they are known to be more vulnerable and resistant to environmental change and disruptions to routines (Baweja et al.,2021;...
Coping style Coping Self-Efficacy Scale—Short Form Vagni et al. (2020) [32] Psychological stress Emergency Stress Questionnaire The results of this study highlighted how emergency workers who worked with COVID-19 patients experienced high stress levels and burnout. Lack of suitable and needed inst...
After the declaration of the global pandemic, many AI experts have been tried to find how can be used Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a powerful tool in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. AI Technology, which includes Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Compu...
19 vaccination roll-out, and a substantial percentage of the population went back to school or returned to work after the Spring festival holiday. Thus, it was considered convenient for the collection of questionnaires. Our research adopted convenience and snowball sampling methods. Questionnaire ...
The 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire CORS-COVID-19: Conservation of Resources Scale for COVID-19 SEM: Structural equation modeling aOR : Adjusted odds ratio HKD: Hong Kong Dollar USD: United States Dollar GDP: Gross domestic product USA: United States of America CI : Confidence...
Thus, it is likely that the pre-pandemic attitudes towards bats were affected by the outbreak of COVID-19. In the questionnaire, we examined the effectiveness of two conservation messages on changing participants' attitudes towards bats (Table 1). In the first message, we described some of ...
The third survey—not used in this study—was used to collect non-diagnostic information related to the participant’s current mental health status. The survey combined the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ)-227, which seeks to screen for depression, and the General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)-7 as...
After each reinfection identification, an extended interview was conducted with a structured questionnaire in a Case Record Form. All data were recorded and analysed using SPSS (version 20). The proportion of each variable was analysed through chi-square or Fisher's exact test, where appropriate. ...